More attention is being place on the impact of oral health on overall health, and as older adults are aging with more natural teeth, expectations of maintaining oral health are higher than ever before. This webinar, a part of Oral Health America's Wisdom Tooth Project Webinar Series, will discuss promoting oral health for older adults.
Americans with disabilities brave significant barriers to accessing health care services and preventing their ongoing health conditions. The Living Well with a Disability (LWD) program seeks to address this health disparity through peer-led programs designed for adults with disabilities.
Justice in Aging will host a webinar on how to protect older Americans’ rights through legal assistance. Penelope Hommel, Co-Director of The Center for Social Gerontology, and Sarah Halsell, a Legal Assistance Developer, will present the webinar entitled “Development and Implementation of Statewide Standards.” The webinar will focus on establishing and implementing statewide legal standards that define and protect high-impact and high-quality care. The webinar will take place on July 12th, 2017, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
As states have shifted long-term services and supports (LTSS) from fee-for-service to managed care, processes that affect member outcomes become very important for community-based partners to meet state and MCO requirements. Improving operations in areas such as person-centered care and care transitions can increase efficiency and improve the quality of care, outcomes, member satisfaction and quality of life.
The National Alzheimer’s and Dementia Resource Center will host a webinar detailing how to create a friendly, dementia-capable community. The Orange County Department of OC CARES, located in North Carolina, succeeded in creating a better community for their most vulnerable members over the past year and a half and would like to discuss the challenges and successes of their programs. They will explain the core requirements of a dementia friendly and capable community and how to undergo a trial-and-error with these clear core objectives in mind.
The National Disability Institute will host a webinar exploring assistive technology (AT) programs and how it can be used to help individuals build their finances. This webinar will define assistive technology, give examples of assistive technology resource programs, and also discuss ways to access the programs across the nation.
This webinar will take place on July 12th, 2017, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.
Lori Stiegel and Mary Joy Quinn, experts on elder abuse and undue influence, will host the webinar entitled “Elder Abuse: The Impact of Undue Influence.” Often, perpetrators of elder abuse exert undue influence to control the decisions made by their victims. Recognizing the signs of undue influence—including the psychological process between abuse and guardianship—will help legal and aging network service providers enhance older victims’ access to justice and ever help prevent abuse. The webinar will be held on June 27th, 2017, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
The AARP Public Policy Institute and the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) are hosting a variety of speakers to explain the effects and implications that the American Health Care Act will have on the Medicaid program. The event will be held in Washington, DC on June 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m. ET.
Alisa Brownlee from the ALS Association and Mary Ward, a Dole Fellow, will deliver presentations on how to cope with and take control of the effects of ALS for military and veteran caregivers. Prior sessions have been recorded and can be found here. The Easterseals Military and Veterans Services will host this webinar on June 22nd, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Wendy Strobel Gower of Diversity Partners, Michelle Day of Frederick County, MD, and Lanae Green of Region 16 in Burlington, IA, will present a webinar to teach workforce development professionals how to best assist job seekers with disabilities. They will discuss the requirements of Section 188 and strategies in how to build a more inclusive workforce development system at the local level by affirmatively recruiting and offering services to job seekers with disabilities. They will also highlight information from the Diversity Partners online modules.
